Japan ’s already alarming demographic crisis has now hit a worrying new milestone. For the first time in the country’s ...
The total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, fell to 1.26 in 2022. It’s the lowest number since 1947, the starting year for ...
For the first time ever, more than one in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older. National data also shows 29.1% of the ...
Singapore's birth rate reached a record low in 2022 as high cost of living in the country steers couples away from expanding ...
South Korea's birth rate hit a new low Wednesday as authorities announced barely 300,000 babies were born last year in the nation of 51 million people. Visitors rest in the shade in the midday heat at ...
More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the ...
TOKYO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record for the next fiscal year, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...
This file photo shows Japan's Finance Ministry in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Budget requests by Japanese government offices for the next fiscal year likely hit a record of ...
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Analysts found that Singapore's birth rate last year plummeted by 7.9 per cent, due to how expensive it is to live in Singapore, and the high cost of living continues to steer many away from ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's budget demands will hit a record, exceeding 112 trillion yen ($767 billion), for the current fiscal year, sources told Reuters, as rising interest rates add to debt ...
